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Here's The First Screenshot Of The Linux Steam Client

05-01-2010, 02:10 PM

Phoronix: Here's The First Screenshot Of The Linux Steam Client

Less than two weeks ago we reported on the Mac OS X Steam client confirming the existence of a Linux client and then found more Linux references too. We then found the unreleased Steam Linux binaries that were under active development. Some still didn't believe the existence of a Steam client for Linux with Source Engine support, but it's something we have said for nearly two years based upon our sources and then the emergence of these binaries...

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Ok -- so Kano posted this link in IRC to make setting this up ridiculously easy, just paste this into a bash file, save it, and run it in an empty directory! I didn't write this, but Kano said "do what you want, its not my patch anyway ", so here it is...

Why? Because of consistency; Steam has an overly mode where these windows can appear in-game as well for changing settings in the Source engine, nut also for bringing up instant messaging, voip and browsing servera and whatnot in third party games.

Ever sinse a not too distant time ago it is compositing with shadows of its own, so it doesn't match the OS's window
anagement graphical effects and behavoir.

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Yay! I got it working on another machine... on my main machine, it wouldn't start because I was using a Radeon X1950 GT 256MB card, and the radeon R300 open-source driver. When I tried it on another machine, also running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, except in 32-bit instead of 64-bit like on my other machine. Anyways, here are some screenshots of it working: